NOVEMBEB 30, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The chemical library of the late Professor 

 Bunsen is now offered for sale at Leipzig. 



The eleventh annual meeting of the American 

 Morphological Society will be held at the Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Decem- 

 ber 27 and 28, 1900, under the presidency 

 of Professor T. H. Morgan. The first session 

 will begin Thursday, December 27th, at 9:30 

 A. M. Other sessions will be held on Thursday 

 afternoon and Friday morning. The titles of 

 papers and lists of exhibits should be in the 

 hands of the Secretary, Professsor J. S. Kings- 

 ley, Tufts College, Mass., not later than De- 

 cember 10th; any title received after De- 

 cember 23d will be admitted only by special 

 vote of the executive committee. The sug- 

 gestion has been made that the Society have 

 an informal meeting on Wednesday evening 

 which shall be of a social character and in 

 some respects similar to the gatherings of the 

 Physiological Society. If sufficient encourage- 

 ment is received arrangements will be made for 

 such a meeting of the Morphological Society. 



The first annual meeting of the Illinois State 

 Electric Association will be held at the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, November 27, 1900. The As- 

 sociation was organized at Springfield, 111., on 

 April 24, 1900, and represents in its member- 

 ship the leading electric light and power indus- 

 tries of the State. 



Particulars concerning the Ludwick Insti- 

 tute courses of free lectures on the natural 

 sciences and their applications at the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for the sea- 

 son 1900-1901 have been announced. The pro- 

 gram is as follows : 



Course I. 'Geographical Distribution of Animals.' 

 Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry. 



Course II. 'Entomology.' Dr. Henry Skinner. 



Course III. ' Physiology and Hygiene.' Dr. Seneca 

 Egbert. 



Course IV. ' The Bird Life of Philadelphia and 

 Vicinity.' Witmer Stone. 



Course V. ' Metamorphism, as exemplified in the 

 rocks of the Philadelphia Region.' Dr. Amos P. 

 Brown. 



Course VI. ' Influence of the Environment on Ani- 

 mal Life.' Dr. Benjamin Sharp. 



Course VII. 'Botany.' Stewardson Brown. 



Course VIII. ' The Survival of the Fittest Animals. ' 

 Dr. Philip P. Calvert. 



Each course consists of five lectures which 

 are delivered on Monday and Thursday even- 

 ings at 8 o'clock. Free season tickets can be 

 obtained at the Academy from any of the lec- 

 turers or from Mr. A. C. Ashmead, 11th and 

 Walnut Sts., Philadelphia. 



The annual report of the Council of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons of England has 

 recently been issued. According to the account 

 in the Loudon Times, it contains for the first 

 time a list of honorary fellows. The list in- 

 cludes the names of the Prince of Wales, Lord 

 Salisbury and Lord Rosebury, and of 35 emi- 

 nent surgeons from all parts of the world. 

 There are 1,221 fellows of the College and 

 17,510 members, being considerably over half 

 of the number of names contained in the Med- 

 ical Register for 1900. 



At the fourteenth ordinary general meeting 

 of the Egypt Exploration Fund on November 

 7th, Professsor Flinders Petrie spoke of the 

 new knowledge of ancient Egyptian civilization 

 which "had resulted from the explorations sup- 

 ported by the Society. The treasurer reported 

 that about thirteen thousand dollars was spent 

 in 1899-1900. 



An international association for the further- 

 ance of the exploration of Central Asia is being 

 formed at St. Petersburg. 



The Antarctic, the ship used by the Danish 

 Lieutenant Amdrup during his recent successful 

 East Greenland exploration expedition, has 

 been bought by Dr. Otto Nordenskjold, for his 

 proposed South Polar expedition. The Antarctic 

 once before visited the South Polar regions and 

 is the same ship that Professor Nathorst used in 

 two Antarctic expeditions. 



The French War Department has appropri- 

 ated $80,000 for secret experiments on wireless 

 telegraphy with a view to perfecting its appli- 

 cations in war. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The hall of Natural History of Trinity Col- 

 lege will be formally opened on the afternoon 

 of Friday, December 7th. Addresses will be 

 given in Alumni Hall by Professor H. F. Os- 

 born, of Columbia University, on ' The Prog- 



